N-400 September 2023 Filers

[mark08 16]

Just had my interview today.

 

It was a combo I-751 and N-400, but the I-751 part was very short and easy (generally just questions how we met, we both answered that describing the story). They said the documentation we supplied when we sent original I-751 was sufficient and did not need anything else (I did submit some most recent bank statements, phone plans etc to the N400 application online a few days before the interview though).

 

Then, my wife was asked to step back a bit, and we proceeded with the civics test and reading/writing tests. All nice and easy. Very friendly. Then we walked through the N-400 application.

 

The whole thing took maybe 20min total. Approved on the spot (both I-751 and N-400).

 

Should be getting my ceremony scheduled in around 4-6 weeks, so sometime in January.

 

No updates in my USCIS account so far (but the interview was only a couple hours ago). 

 

Glad to be almost done. Good luck everyone!

Edited December 13, 2023 by mark08

[itscarly 114]

I had my interview today and I passed!!

It was a combo interview I-751 and N-400. It went smoothly but it was very long, about an hour to an hour and 15mins.

 

Husband 2 form of ID

 

I-751 Part:

Our case was very straightforward but we still got split, my husband (us citizen) went first and I went second. What I noticed is that the office was doing 4 combo interviews at the same time and we were all split up. Tbh it seems like their standard method. My husband and I are both ramblers and like to tell stories so I think that's why it took so long haha, their questions were:

- How did you meet?

- When did you meet?

- What do you two have in common?

- What type of visa did you have when you came to America?

- In what city did you live when you came to America?

- Why did you choose that city?

- Who pays for bills?

- Do you have children?

- Do you have pets? What are their names? How did you get them?

- What do you like more cats or dogs?

- Have you met each other's families?

- What did your family think about your spouse?

- What car do you drive/and your spouse drive?

- How did you get your/spouse's car?

- What's each other's job?

- What's your degree in?

- Does your spouse work in an office or from home?

- Do you rent?

- How many bedrooms and bathrooms does your apt have?

- My spouse was asked: from the time he started dating me until the present if he has ever thought I was using him for immigration benefits.

 

He told me I passed the I-751 part, he took a new picture for my green card renewal and took my fingerprints. While he was looking for the N-400 we had a small talk about my country, the new president, covid, the difference between accents in Latin America, astrology (LOL), if it's mandatory in my country to learn English, and how and why I learned, we talked about how I found my passion for art in my childhood, irrelevant(I think) but it was entertaining!

 

Then we started N-400 part

Civic test questions:

- Who's your U.S. representative?

- How many justices are in the Supreme Court?

- What's the capital of your State?

- Who's in charge of the executive branch?

- We elect a president for how many years?

- Name one war fought in the 1800s

Reading:

Who elects Congress?

Writing:

The people elect congress

I passed that and he went through the yes/no questions and we were done! 

 

He gave me the paper with a confirmation that I passed and he recommended me for naturalization.

He told me it was going to take about 2 weeks to change my I-751 status and afterward they'll move on to the naturalization paperwork, that I might be doing the Oath by February, and congratulations!

 

It was a very unexpected interview because for the I-485 it took 15 mins and it was so easy. But yeah wanted to share the full experience while it's still fresh. My online status hasn't changed!

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

It’s gonna be a few more weeks yall my first few Receipt number IOE09222 this the status for that block. 

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

It changes daily. 

[MunnoTheCat 67]

5 minutes ago, LEXUSdRIVER2908 said:

It changes daily. 

 

 

how is it extracting the data?

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

Pretty sure they are scrapping data off of the case status website 

[MunnoTheCat 67]

can you share the link of the page where i put my receipt number to see where i am standing right now lol?

Mine says "IOE94872"

[OldUser 5,199]

10 minutes ago, MunnoTheCat said:

 

 

how is it extracting the data?

Case status doesn't require login, it's open. Cases have sequential numbers. The tools just goes and checks statuses for all cases.

[MunnoTheCat 67]

ahh! That's how they are getting the data lol Currently it is not supporting N-400, that's weird

 

 

CaseStatusExt provides reports and tools to analyze and visualize USCIS case status. First, the daily updates report gives statistics of USCIS daily updates of different forms across different service centers. Additionally, it shows weekly trend comparing to last week. Second the status report provides detailed information on case status within each receipt block. It currently supports 6 types of forms: I-485, I-765, I-140, I-130, I-131 and I-751. Check it out at Link. Finally the approval report provides more details into the approval activity of each service center, check it out at Approvals. Additional we have CaseTool that provides the latest case status and visualization of your specific case

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

It has n400 stay the other tab 

[boobooboo 7]

That website is bogus and doesn't work anymore from what I have seen. Would recommend to just ignore it. It's been stuck on 09xxx whereas most have moved to 94xxx per some post I saw, forgetting where. 

Edited December 14, 2023 by boobooboo

[LEXUSdRIVER2908 20]

It updates everyday

[MunnoTheCat 67]

so i entered my case number and it says "Unable to retrieve information of (receipt number), please check receipt number and try again later.

 

If casestatus is inhaling data form different service centers as it claims on their website then it may be obvious that no one didn't give a damn over my case yet lol. But the last notice i received it says "NBC" Current processing time is like "20 days" left. Looks like it is glitch here, glitch there, glitch everywhere lol situation. I may be wrong though.
 

Edited December 14, 2023 by MunnoTheCat

[MunnoTheCat 67]

3 minutes ago, MunnoTheCat said:

so i entered my case number and it says "Unable to retrieve information of (receipt number), please check receipt number and try again later.

 

If casestatus is inhaling data form different service centers as it claims on their website then it may be obvious that no one didn't give a damn over my case yet lol. But the last notice i received it says "NBC" Current processing time is like "20 days" left. Looks like it is glitch here, glitch there, glitch everywhere lol situation. I may be wrong though.
 

 

my receipt number starts with IOE9487 but not IOE09487. Case status only shows data for IOE09, do i fall into the 09 category? 

[MunnoTheCat 67]

Thought to share this,

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/USCIS/comments/yn60ig/decoding_ioe_case_numbers/

 

https://hilites.today/uscis_cases/ioe-stats

Edited December 14, 2023 by MunnoTheCat